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The Crisis Of The Union 1860 1861
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Author : Stanford University. Institute of American History
language : en
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State U. P
Release Date : 1965
The Crisis Of The Union 1860 1861 written by Stanford University. Institute of American History and has been published by Baton Rouge, Louisiana State U. P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with History categories.
Papers of a conference sponsored by the Institute of AmericanHistory and held at Stanford University on March 1-2, 1963.
The Crisis Of The Union 1860 1861
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Author : George Harmon Knoles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
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The Crisis Of The Union 1860 1861
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Author : George Harmon Knoles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
The Crisis Of The Union 1860 1861 written by George Harmon Knoles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Presidents categories.
Secession Winter
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Author : Robert J Cook
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Release Date : 2013-03-22
Secession Winter written by Robert J Cook and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-22 with History categories.
Three historians examine what drove southern secession in the winter of 1860-1861 and why it culminated in the American Civil War. Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians in Secession Winter explore the robust debates that preceded these events. For five months in the winter of 1860–1861, Americans did not know for certain that civil war was upon them. Some hoped for a compromise; others wanted a fight. Many struggled to understand what was happening to their country. Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon take approaches to this period that combine political, economic, and social-cultural lines of analysis. Rather than focus on whether civil war was inevitable, they look at the political process of secession and find multiple internal divisions—political parties, whites and nonwhites, elites and masses, men and women. Even individual northerners and southerners suffered inner conflicts. The authors include the voices of Unionists and Whig party moderates who had much to lose and upcountry folk who owned no slaves and did not particularly like those who did. Barney contends that white southerners were driven to secede by anxiety and guilt over slavery. Varon takes a new look at Robert E. Lee’s decision to join the Confederacy. Cook argues that both northern and southern politicians claimed the rightness of their cause by constructing selective narratives of historical grievances.
And The War Came
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Author : Kenneth Milton Stampp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
And The War Came written by Kenneth Milton Stampp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with American literature categories.
Rebels In The Making
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Author : William L. Barney
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-01
Rebels In The Making written by William L. Barney and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with History categories.
Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery. As shown by their blaming British and Northern slave traders for saddling them with slavery, most were uncomfortable with the institution. While many wanted it ended, most were content to leave that up to God. All that changed with the election of Abraham Lincoln. Rebels in the Making is a narrative-driven history of how and why secession occurred. In this work, senior Civil War historian William L. Barney narrates the explosion of the sectional conflict into secession and civil war. Carefully examining the events in all fifteen slave states and distinguishing the political circumstances in each, he argues that this was not a mass democratic movement but one led from above. The work begins with the deepening strains within Southern society as the slave economy matured in the mid-nineteenth century and Southern ideologues struggled to convert whites to the orthodoxy of slavery as a positive good. It then focuses on the years of 1860-1861 when the sectional conflict led to the break-up of the Union. As foreshadowed by the fracturing of the Democratic Party over the issue of federal protection for slavery in the territories, the election of 1860 set the stage for secession. Exploiting fears of slave insurrections, anxieties over crops ravaged by a long drought, and the perceived moral degradation of submitting to the rule of an antislavery Republican, secessionists launched a movement in South Carolina that spread across the South in a frenzied atmosphere described as the great excitement. After examining why Congress was unable to reach a compromise on the core issue of slavery's expansion, the study shows why secession swept over the Lower South in January of 1861 but stalled in the Upper South. The driving impetus for secession is shown to have come from the middling ranks of the slaveholders who saw their aspirations of planter status blocked and denigrated by the Republicans. A separate chapter on the formation of the Confederate government in February of 1861 reveals how moderates and former conservatives pushed aside the original secessionists to assume positions of leadership. The final chapter centers on the crisis over Fort Sumter, the resolution of which by Lincoln precipitated a second wave of secession in the Upper South. Rebels in the Making shows that secession was not a unified movement, but has its own proponents and patterns in each of the slave states. It draws together the voices of planters, non-slaveholders, women, the enslaved, journalists, and politicians. This is the definitive study of the seminal moment in Southern history that culminated in the Civil War.
The Secession Crisis 1860 1861
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Author : P. J. Staudenraus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
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A Southern Star For Maryland
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Author : Lawrence M. Denton
language : en
Publisher: Publishing Concepts (Baltimore, MD)
Release Date : 1995-06-30
A Southern Star For Maryland written by Lawrence M. Denton and has been published by Publishing Concepts (Baltimore, MD) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-06-30 with Maryland categories.
This is the story of Maryland in the secession crisis as seen from the Southern perspective. The author argues that Maryland did not freely choose to remain in the Union in 1861, but was forced. Maryland's location put the state in a dilemma: secede and become a battleground or remain in the Union and be forced to fight their kinsmen to the South. In the 1860 presidential election, Maryland sided with the South. Then, while Maryland secessionists attempted to follow Virginia, their reluctant governor, Thomas Holiday Hicks, delayed them until it was too late.
We Have The War Upon Us
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Author : William J. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-09-11
We Have The War Upon Us written by William J. Cooper and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-11 with History categories.
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men whose decisions and actions during the crisis of the Union resulted in the outbreak of the Civil War. Sectional compromise had been critical in the history of the country, from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 through to 1860, and was a hallmark of the nation. On several volatile occasions political leaders had crafted solutions to the vexing problems dividing North and South. During the postelection crisis many Americans assumed that once again a political compromise would settle yet another dispute. Instead, in those crucial months leading up to the clash at Fort Sumter, that tradition of compromise broke down and a rapid succession of events led to the great cataclysm in American history, the Civil War. All Americans did not view this crisis from the same perspective. Strutting southern fire-eaters designed to break up the Union. Some Republicans, crowing over their electoral triumph, evinced little concern about the threatened dismemberment of the country. Still others—northerners and southerners, antislave and proslave alike—strove to find an equitable settlement that would maintain the Union whole. Cooper captures the sense of contingency, showing Americans in these months as not knowing where decisions would lead, how events would unfold. The people who populate these pages could not foresee what war, if it came, would mean, much less predict its outcome. We Have the War Upon Us helps us understand what the major actors said and did: the Republican party, the Democratic party, southern secessionists, southern Unionists; why the pro-compromise forces lost; and why the American tradition of sectional compromise failed. It reveals how the major actors perceived what was happening and the reasons they gave for their actions: Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, William Henry Seward, John J. Crittenden, Charles Francis Adams, John Tyler, James Buchanan, and a host of others. William J. Cooper has written a full account of the North and the South, Republicans and Democrats, sectional radicals and sectional conservatives that deepens our insight into what is still one of the most controversial periods in American history.
Union In Peril
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Author : Howard Jones
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1992
Union In Peril written by Howard Jones and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Discusses why Great Britain and other leading European countries failed to intervene in the Civil War.